CIA Announced Cyberwar Vs. Serbs
Last Year
"President Clinton has authorized the Central Intelligence
Agency to look into ways to destabilize the [Yugoslav]
government...The authorization comes in the form of a
"finding," a highly classified document authorizing covert
operations. The sources have told CNN that the finding authorizes
the CIA to consider the use of computers to conduct cyberwar against
Milosevic." (CNN: May 24, 1999)

Some things are only to be expected. One is: whatever
happens in the Balkans, we must blame the Serbs. Having undergone a decade
of successful testing, this rule can now be extended. The Serbs must be
blamed for anything that happens anywhere in the world.

Or at least in the Worldwide Web.

Case in point: a BBC story which appeared April 13th. The headline reads:

'''SERB HACKERS' ON A RAMPAGE"

Very often, I have found, Western news stories begin with a lie and end
with something approximating truth. So with this BBC story.

Here's a quote that appears three-quarters of the way through:

"It is impossible to say exactly who the hackers are, or how they
managed to breach databases that should be secure."

Indeed.

The story itself is slightly incomprehensible. As you will see when you
read it, it appears to be talking about two different sets of events. The
set of events related to the headline is this: apparently a number of
websites whose domain names are registered with Network Solutions were taken
over in the past few days. The Websites included some big companies (like
Adidas) as well as a variety of Balkans sites including www.kosovapress.com
(KLA) and www.Arkan.com and www.yu.com (definitely not KLA). The only
evidence the BBC offers to support the "Serb rampage" headline is:
on or more of the hacked sites sported a Serbian Eagle emblem and the
rather mild comment "Kosovo is Serbia. Be happy if we hacked your site
because we only hack the best sites on the internet."

The problem with the "the Serbs did it" line is: why then were
Serbian sites also hacked? Indeed, as the BBC didn't bother to mention, the
main Serbian government site - www.serbia-info.com - was also hacked Wed.
afternoon and Serbia-info is also registered with Network Solutions. And it
didn't get an emblem and a harmless logo. It got an entire English
presentation full of NATO-type propaganda, accusing the Serbian government
of atrocities.

There's another problem with the "the damn Serbs-did-it" line:
The BBC story says the hackers forged email address identical to those of
the hacked Websites and then transferred control of the various domain names
to the hackers. Explains the BBC:

"The contact addresses were at first transferred to a Yugoslav
address, and then on Monday night to an Albanian address."

Huh?

Doesn't this suggest a KLA-type group did the hacking and tried to pin it
on "the rampaging Serbs"?

[Note:
Since this story was written, the BBC has changed their line, not once but
twice.
First, they replaced the original story with a new one that softens the
allegations against the Serbs. Most recently, they have posted a story which
correctly portrays the Serbian websites as the victims. Unfortunately, the
original Serb-bashing story was run on the front page of the BBC website,
while the final story portraying the Serbs as victims does not appear on any
main news page. It was only discovered by doing a deep search of the BBC
site.]

When the Serbia-info.com site was hacked, Eric Garris at www.antiwar.com
spoke with Christine from the Media Relations Department at Network
Solutions. She suggested that the hackers had emulated the email addresses
of owners of various Websites and using those addresses, sent false
messages, transferring the domain ownership over to the hackers.

But there's a big problem with this explanation.

As Garris noted, before a domain change can be processed, Network
solutions has to send a confirmation email to the proper owner. So the
hacker would not only have to emulate the email address when sending in the
transfer request - a fairly easy task - he or she would have to intercept
the Network Solutions confirmation message as well. This seems virtually
impossible.

This suggests something a good deal more sophisticated than amateur
hackers. One possible explanation: this was a black ops move, orchestrated
by the US government, which last May announced its intention to take the war
to the Internet.

Network Solutions is licensed by the US government and US intelligence
organizations could easily gain access to the Network Solutions technical
apparatus. The purpose: to disrupt the Serbian government Website and to set
the stage for a media smear campaign about "Rampaging Serbs."

Making these changes from within Network Solutions would be a snap. If
this is what happened, it is a very serious matter indeed. Was the seizure
of the Serbian site a trial balloon? And if so, who will be next?

Below is the text of the altered domain registration information, which was
posted at Network Solutions when Serbia-Info.com was taken over by hackers,
apparently from Pristina, in Kosovo. And below that we've posted the link to
a statement from Serbia-Info.com which sees the hacking of the Serbian
government Website as part of the US assault on Yugoslavia.

Here is the text of the false domain info taken from network Solutions on
4/13:

For the statement from Serbia-info.com, click here or go to
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/serbia-info.htm

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